The Soul-Based Life Manifesto
(Found folded inside a teacup for you to find when curious)
This is not about “winning at life.” If you came here looking for life hacks, you may want to turn your boots around.
Your nervous system is not a checklist. Morning routines, meditations, yoga, whole foods - all done! Nope. Our nervous systems speak a tricky language I don’t pretend to understand completely. Don’t pressure yourself with self-help perfection. Here, we build slow and strange in a way your breath can keep up with.
Fulfillment isn’t inherited. It isn’t borrowed from someone else’s blueprint either. When you write your own spell by listening to your rhythms, your heart will become a whisper that can’t be unheard.
Creativity is not a luxury. It’s a tool. A survival skill. A compass. If you’re here, your way is how you think, feel, connect, and how you make sense, even when it feels weird. Especially then. Creativity thrives in imperfection.
The goal is not visibility (shudder), it’s integrity. You don’t owe the algorithm your spark. You don’t owe anyone your trauma story unless you want to share it. You are not a brand. You are a house of stories, and of moments, and lots of meaning. You choose how and if you’re seen.
Productivity is not morality. Rest is not a reward. Slowness is not shame. There is nothing sacred here about busyness for its own sake. We honour dormancy and then a season that’s full of compost. Beautiful things come from rest.
We remember ourselves. When the noise of the world is overwhelming, we learn to come home. To the heart of things, this life and the soul of us. Freedom. Truth. Curiosity? That is your compass.
We honour the real you. You have a sensitive nervous system, quietly fierce, and gloriously unusual. You don’t need permission to be yourself.
We resist the machine. The one that grinds meaning into metrics, souls into stats or connection into jargon. We build our own stories, for ourselves, when we like. We have moss and stones in our pockets, and we collect sticks that feel good in our hands.
We build what fits. Not what’s trending. Not what’s easiest to sell, scale or automate. What moves through you. What you want to wake up to. What you are built to do is what you do.
If these words feel like a help, you feel at home, welcome. I’ll put the kettle on.